Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Suprisingly *Good* comics of the 1990's!

Hey! Now you're making me feel like a goof. Ah well they were fun reads sometimes, and that's what comiccs were all about.

See I thought Fabian Nicheesmalosovichski wrote the best X-book with X-Force. I know folks dissed it because of Rob L.'s stank; but left to his own, Fabe crafted something really special.


And, DnA did some fine work with FORCE WORKS before getting caught up in the Avengers mess.

GUNSMITH CATS was one of my favorite books in the 90's. Kenichi Sonada really stands out from the pack of Japanese cartoonsists. I came in about 1/3rd of the way into the series, then got the TPBs for the stories I missed. I even got the 3-episode cartoon videotape!

When the series ended, I continued my Sonada "fix" with CANNON GOD EXAXXION, and currently buy SUPER MANGA BLAST only to get that one series. (I might buy the TPBs instead... but I prefer getting "full size" art to see and appreciate all the detail, and dislike the "shrunken" TPB format apparently so popular in Japan...and shoved down the throats of American buyers because a few distributors who make all the decisions of what book store chains can buy want the smaller versions.)

Don't feel bad CJ! I haven't read them in a decade, but at the time I was totally enthralled by Shadowhawk by Jim Valentino. I even liked Brigade a bit too...

CJ, Cobie-

I'd have probably laughed at you at the time, Vertigo-snob that I was, but we all went through phases like that. My era of reading books of that sort came about in the 80s.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/04/15/the-complete-major-bummer-from-dark-horse-comics/

Quantum and Woody (The N word...if you really understand that...you rule! And who didn't like the G.O.A.T.?)

Slingers (Really liked this series, was sad when it ended)

Firearm (By James Robinson, spiritual predacessor to Starman)

Resurrection Man, Doom Patrol, the Arsenal miniseries and Tempest miniseries, Young Heroes in Love, Generation X, Scare Tactics, Sailor Moon, some of the few I adore.

I freely admit to not having read the entire thread, but what I did read left out one really great book..

Resurrection Man.

I missed this the first time around because I gave up on the X-Men about ten months before it launched.

Some time ago, I bought back issues of the first few issues of the Jay Faerber/Terry Dodson/Rachel Dodson run because those were the earliest appearances of the "real" Monet (don't ask, it's complicated), and they were okay, but nothing special.

Now, after recently borrowing the Generation X Classic trade from the library, I regret that I did. The Phalanx story arc that introduced the characters is good, but the first four issues of Generation X proper are outstanding! Any Scott Lobdell skeptics (and I admit I was one myself) need to read this.

Thanks for enthusing about Generation X, Sarky.

The first year of Generation X was great. Sometime after that I stopped collecting the title (can't remember if it was because of quality of the title or lost interest in the periphery X-titles).

Some characters, like Husk and Chamber, have *never* worked for me when Lobdell isn't writing them.

I'm going to the comic store tomorrow, so I'll see if they have back issues of Gen X #5-12 and the first Annual. Thanks, Cobie.

Yes, GenX was great at the beginning. Great artwork (Bachalo before he detoriated), very good characters, and the glossy stock paper certainly did help pimping the overall look of the book. I still like those characters when they are popping up in the few X-Books which I still read (which is: X-Factor and now New Mutants). To me, M is really in some way the sexy answer to DCs Starfire

By the way I felt that all the X-Books majorly detoriated when Lobdell left... AND THEY NEVER GOT GOOD AGAIN!

I always thought of Gen X as 'Clive Barker's New Mutants.' Penance had no skin and was all exposed leathery tissue. Husk rips her skin off to shapechange. Chamber has huge chunks of his body missing. Skin, unsurprisingly, has skin-related powers.

Just need some people with powers related to blood and bones!